HMS Volunteer (D71)
Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Volunteer7 November 1919 — May 19452,096 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Volunteer
- Pennant / hull number
- D71
- Namesake
- volunteer
- Builder
- William Denny and Brothers, Dunbarton
- Ordered
- January 1918
- Laid down
- 16 April 1918
- Launched
- 17 April 1919
- Commissioned
- 7 November 1919
- Decommissioned
- May 1945
- Recommissioned
- August 1939
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 3 or 4 March 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.99 m (29.5 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 127
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Volunteer was a Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D71. She was named for volunteer. William Denny and Brothers, Dunbarton laid her keel on 16 April 1918. She entered service on 7 November 1919, having been launched on 17 April 1919.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 127. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,096 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1945. She recommissioned in August 1939.
She was broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- As built 1920:
- 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes
- 1940 SRE conversion:
- 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
- 1 × 3 in AA gun
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (one triple mount)
- 2 × depth charge racks
- twin 6 pounder army gun (1942 – replaced 'A' gun)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Volunteer (D71) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19252/large.jpg This photograph FL 10356 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons